Earlier we blogged about MNP and 1.5 crore customers who adopted it. The picture doesn’t look so rosy now. Mobile number portability was going to be the biggest change agent in the Indian Telecom segment...

Yesterday we blogged that 13 million subscribers in India changed their service provider by using Mobile Number Portability (MNP).  It is now reported that Idea Cellular, one of the telecom companies...

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is proving to be a big hit across India, with 13 million subscribers changing their service provider since November 2010. Users can now freely change their existing numbers...

Quite contrary to its initial plan of launching 3G services in the state of Gujarat by March this year, Idea Cellular has announced its plans of rolling out the services in the entire country by the same...

Sometime back in July last year, we covered a story on the growth of mobile subscribers in India. Adding onto this, a recent TRAI report also said that there were 752.19 million subscribers in December...

Well, just 2 days ago we wrote about BSNL’s App Store. Now, there is news of Idea’s online app store being powered by Ericsson. It will be based on Ericssons eStore solution (see sample here)....

Business Standard reported that Idea Cellular is rolling out 3G services in the state of Gujarat by March next year. One of the oldest mobile operators in the state Idea has bagged 3G spectrum license...

Here we go again! In what could be another twist to the BlackBerry saga, the Home Ministry has written to the Department of Telecommunications expressing their dissatisfaction over a proposed solution...

Government has allocated 3G spectrum to mobile service operators including Vodafone Essar, Reliance Communication and Tata Teleservices. The operators are excited to rollout the 3G services to the Indian...

We are set to witness another tariff war after the 1 paisa/sec billing that Tata Docomo brought about roughing up quite a few established telecom operator feathers, Videocon has drawn first blood in the...

Nokia have definitely taken a lot of steps to penetrate the Indian market. First it tied up with Tata DoCoMo to provide Nokia Ovi Life Tools. This was a good move considering DoCoMo’s reach in rural...

We caught up with Pradeep Shrivastava of Idea Cellular and spoke to him about the success of Oongli Cricket, VAS revenue share and IDEA TV. Check out this exclusive WATShow with Pradeep Shrivastava: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa8iaRfc0Hs Do...

Two years ago, in 2007, I remember, it were the happier times of the Indian Telecom Industry. Everyone wanted to be a part of this. This sector rose as the flag bearer of the rising Indian economy which...

It was expected, but never ever did we thought that it would come about this fast. The whole thing was started by the TATAs as they have always done, flagging of new revolutionary ideas for the Indian...

I was recently the moderator of a panel discussion on ‘Incumbents vs New Entrants’ at SITM Pune at the Asian telecom seminar. Panelists present were: Mr. Satyen Gupta, Chief Regulatory Advisor, British...

In a move to capture a portion of the ever so lucrative mobile advertising market in India Yahoo has announced a tie up with Idea cellular. We had blogged earlier on the broad mobile advertising models...